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ArticleBMC bioinformatics2024

Regulatory landscape enrichment analysis (RLEA): a computational toolkit for non-coding variant enrichment and cell type prioritization.

Samuel Rosean, Eric A Sosa, Dónal O'Shea, Srilakshmi M Raj, Cathal Seoighe, John M Greally

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Article in BMC bioinformatics, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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Samuel Rosean *Department of Systems and Computational Biology, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, NY, 10461, USA.
Eric A Sosa *Department of Genetics, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, NY, 10461, USA.
Dónal O'SheaSchool of Mathematics, Statistics & Applied Mathematics, National University of Ireland Galway, Galway, H91 TK33, Ireland.
Srilakshmi M RajDepartment of Genetics, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, NY, 10461, USA.
Cathal SeoigheSchool of Mathematics, Statistics & Applied Mathematics, National University of Ireland Galway, Galway, H91 TK33, Ireland.
John M GreallyDepartment of Genetics, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, NY, 10461, USA. john.greally@einsteinmed.edu.

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Medical Scientist Training ProgramT32GM149364 · NIGMS · ALBERT EINSTEIN COLLEGE OF MEDICINE · PI Myles H. Akabas · 2023 to 2026
$7.5M
All of Us Consortium of CTSA Community Engagement ProgramsOT2OD031919 · OD · UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA · PI COTTLER, LINDA B., EDER, MILTON · 2022 to 2025
$5.0M
UNDERSTANDING CELLULAR AND TRANSCRIPTIONAL REGULATORY CHANGES IN HUMAN AGINGR01AG057422 · NIA · ALBERT EINSTEIN COLLEGE OF MEDICINE, INC · PI GREALLY, JOHN, LAPPALAINEN, TUULI · 2018 to 2022
$4.5M
Defining the gene regulatory roles of non-coding variants in the pathogenesis of autismF31MH131380 · NIMH · ALBERT EINSTEIN COLLEGE OF MEDICINE · PI SOSA, ERIC ALEXANDER · 2022 to 2025
$213k
NIA NIH HHS R01 AG057422NIGMS NIH HHS T32 GM149364NIH HHS OT2 OD031919NIH HHS R01AG057422NIMH NIH HHS F31 MH131380Science Foundation Ireland 16/IA/4612Science Foundation Ireland 18/CRT/6214
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Abstract

backgroundAs genomic studies continue to implicate non-coding sequences in disease, testing the roles of these variants requires insights into the cell type(s) in which they are likely to be mediating their effects. Prior methods for associating non-coding variants with cell types have involved approaches using linkage disequilibrium or ontological associations, incurring significant processing requirements. GaiaAssociation is a freely available, open-source software that enables thousands of genomic loci implicated in a phenotype to be tested for enrichment at regulatory loci of multiple cell types in minutes, permitting insights into the cell type(s) mediating the studied phenotype.

resultsIn this work, we present Regulatory Landscape Enrichment Analysis (RLEA) by GaiaAssociation and demonstrate its capability to test the enrichment of 12,133 variants across the cis-regulatory regions of 44 cell types. This analysis was completed in 134.0 ± 2.3 s, highlighting the efficient processing provided by GaiaAssociation. The intuitive interface requires only four inputs, offers a collection of customizable functions, and visualizes variant enrichment in cell-type regulatory regions through a heatmap matrix. GaiaAssociation is available on PyPi for download as a command line tool or Python package and the source code can also be installed from GitHub at https://github.com/GreallyLab/gaiaAssociation .

conclusionsGaiaAssociation is a novel package that provides an intuitive and efficient resource to understand the enrichment of non-coding variants across the cis-regulatory regions of different cells, empowering studies seeking to identify disease-mediating cell types.

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SoftwareComputational BiologyGenetic VariationGenomicsHumansLinkage DisequilibriumPhenotypeRegulatory Sequences, Nucleic AcidCell-type prioritizationChromatin architectureGWASNon-coding enrichment

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PMID38714913
PMCPMC11075237

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